Netscape MANAGEMENT SYSTEM 6.0 - COMMAND-LINE Manual page 96

Using Netscape Signing Tool
• If you are signing metadata only and not files, you still need to create a blank
directory for Netscape Signing Tool to sign.
• When using the Windows NT version of Netscape Signing Tool, always use a
relative path.
• The command
asterisk (
• If you are having problems using the JAR file from within Navigator, check
signtool -v
• Don't use Netscape Signing Tool's
The
corruption could occur if Communicator simultaneously attempts to write to
these files. All other Netscape Signing Tool options are read-only and can't
harm these files.
• If you see the error
certificate authority that issued your signing certificate. Alternatively, you may
have the certificate authority's certificate, but it may not be trusted for object
signing.
• If you see the error
you used when you obtained the certificate and follow these steps:
a.
b.
c.
d.
e.
f.
You then need to transfer the
system on which you are running Netscape Signing Tool, as described in
"Setting Up Your Certificate" on page 92.
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signtool -L
) beside it. If it doesn't, you cannot sign files.
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on your final archive.
option writes to the security databases as it generates certificates, and
-G
Unknown issuer
Issuer not trusted
Click the Security button in a Navigator window.
Click Signers under Certificates in the left frame.
Select the CA that issued your signing certificate.
Click the Edit button.
Select the "Accept this Certificate Authority for Certifying software
developers" checkbox.
Click OK.
should list your object-signing certificate with an
option while Communicator is running.
-G
, you need to get the certificate of the
, open Communicator on the system
file to the appropriate directory on the
cert7.db